Cyberpunk 2077 has had one of the most popular and messy launches over the past few days, and players are taking to Twitter with the hashtag #Cyberpunk2077bugs to show off some of their best screengrabs. Reports of glitches and bugs in the game started coming in almost immediately after launch, and the tide has yet to be stemmed despite CD Projekt Red's best efforts to patch the game into a more respectable level of functionality.
Glitches in games aren't new, nor are they uncommon, especially right after launch. But what makes Cyberpunk 2077's situation unique is that the game spent eight years in development, and its release was delayed on three separate occasions this year with the intention of making it as polished as possible. The result was CD Projekt RED reversing their stance on mandatory overtime and pushing developers to work up to 100 hours per week in order to mitigate a potential fourth delay, and the product they produced was as polished as a concrete sidewalk. Most of the catastrophic glitches and seizure-inducing lighting has been fixed with a patch, but reports of new glitches seem to be coming in faster than CD Projekt Red can fix them.
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Thankfully, players still have a sense of humor about all of this, because the game, for all its other foibles, is still very good. The bugs and glitches that are still plaguing the game are less catastrophic now than they were, although there are still instances of the game crashing, but they're so prevalent that players have adopted the #Cyberpunk2077bugs tag on Twitter to show off the glitches they've encountered, and which ones are their favorite. The tag is now trending on Twitter, with a few choice entries highlighted below:
Seeing a character looking into the camera with most of her head missing may be the stuff nightmares are made of, but more importantly, it's indicative of a much bigger issue than some funny glitches. CDPR may have dropped the ball when it decided to go against its own mandatory overtime policy, because it's completely unreasonable to force employees to work up to a hundred hours a week and still expect quality results. And throwing more money at developers isn't going to give them the superhuman ability to forgo a reasonable amount of rest and still be able to produce a well-polished product, so it isn't unreasonable to assume that CDPR's future titles are going to suffer from the same issues, until they remember that developers are people and not machines.
But as long as their titles continue to be profitable, that most likely won't change, so best anyone can do is find some humor in the situation. After all, when a game has bugs that involve private parts popping out of characters' clothes, what else is there to do but laugh about it?
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